Today at the gym I saw two Black men recognize each other and the hug they shared was so good I almost cried. They were clinging to each other, knocking themselves off-balance, saying, "I can't believe it." So much love in that hug.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of my favorite movies. And I feel like maybe nobody on social media actually saw it but me. Lol. Jean Brodie gave a good speech. But, Lord, she was a problem. Mags was the GOAT, though.

I strongly dislike how the media does election night like it's sports, using terms like "pulling ahead" and all that. Wait until the polls close and enough votes are counted and then say who won that state. Less "exciting" but a truer representation of what's actually happening.

I feel like the rules of CMVE (Cookie Monster Vernacular English) are not being followed consistently here? It's giving Big Bird pretending to be Cookie Monster. What's that about?

Where are queer Black people supposed to go, though? I'm really asking.

2008

White people, en masse, will do anything to protect whiteness. Men, en masse, will do anything to protect patriarchy. Non Black people of color, en masse, will do anything to align themselves with whiteness.

There is no state where 3rd party votes came close to the margin we needed. We lost to right wing voters and center voters who broke right

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and

The worst part about this? He gets inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day. Fuck all of you that allowed this to happen. EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!

“We told you so”…. TOLD US WHAT??? You think people who voted FOR Trump were just too progressive and were waiting for Democrats to be more left? Well, since she won’t be as left as I want then I’m just going to vote for the greater of two evils. Shut the fuck up.

Can I say something controversial? I don't think this is the whole picture. I think many Americans don't realize how readily white women in non-liberal areas (so, most of the country) accept subjugation.

People of the Diaspora ... do not lose your jobs today